Unit 10 Turbulent Decades Visual Vocabulary Turbulent Decades

Unit 10: Turbulent Decades Visual Vocabulary

Turbulent Decades Militarism A build up of military strength with in a country.

Turbulent Decades Nationalism Loyalty to a nation and promotion of its interests above all others.

Turbulent Decades Alliance System Defense agreements amongst nations.

Turbulent Decades Mobilization Gathering resources and preparing for war.

Turbulent Decades Red Scare A period when the government went after Communists and others with radical views.

Turbulent Decades Flappers A young women of the 1920 s who defied conventions in her behavior and dress.

Turbulent Decades Credit A form of loan, ability to buy goods based on future payment.

Turbulent Decades Bootlegging Making, selling, and transportation of illegal alcohol.

Turbulent Decades Speakeasy An illegal bar selling alcohol during the Prohibition period.

Turbulent Decades On Margin To buy stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest.

Turbulent Decades Hooverville a shantytown built by unemployed and poverty stricken people during the Depression.

Turbulent Decades Dust Bowl Name given to the area of the Southern Great Plains severely damaged by droughts and dust storms during the 1930 s.

Turbulent Decades New Deal Name given to the new laws aimed at relieving the Depression.

Turbulent Decades Black Tuesday Name given to stock market crash on October 29, 1929 plunging the US in to the Great Depression.

Turbulent Decades Stock Exchange A place where shares in corporations are bought and sold through an organized system.

Turbulent Decades Fourteen Points The peace plan proposed by President Wilson to end World War I and restructure the counties of Europe.

Turbulent Decades Fireside Chats series of radio broadcasts made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the nation, beginning in 1933 to describe his policies.

Turbulent Decades Entente An understanding between nations

Turbulent Decades League of Nations An association of countries to preserve peace and resolve international disputes proposed in the Fourteen Points.

Turbulent Decades Harlem Renaissance A result of the Great Migration this part of New York City had a burst of creativity and flowering of African American culture.